Topic: Maybe I should find a new parking spot...

[tmht]

This was last Friday afternoon when we got 4.5" rain in just a couple of hours. I have since cleared a spot next to my porch (yellow house) off the sidewalk for the bike.

[eldar]

Jeez that would suck. I am lucky enough to have a small garage but we got rain like that last friday too. There is a little gully by my place and it turning into a mini-lake!

[Uncle Ernie]

Boy- I sure miss Mom's fresh panfried Bluegills.  How's the fishing?

I believe I'd figure out a ramp onto the porch.  A neighbor had a couple of nice Puch's parked in front of his house forever, then one day the nicest one was gone. 

[tmht]

Boy- I sure miss Mom's fresh panfried Bluegills.  How's the fishing?

I believe I'd figure out a ramp onto the porch.  A neighbor had a couple of nice Puch's parked in front of his house forever, then one day the nicest one was gone. 

I have heard that the fishing is coming back nicely since Katrina, unfortunately I haven't had the time to try and verify that for myself.

With hurricane season right around the corner, I have been contemplating a ramp. I just need to figure out how to make it in pieces for storage and big enough for it to be either a walk along or ride up affair. My clip-ons would be about 6' or so above the sidewalk by the time the bike got to the first step of the porch and my wife would be absolutely no help in that evolution.

[TwoTired]

Thinking outside the box...

Could you find an old, used, tommylift and mount it on your porch?

Cheers,

[tmht]

Thinking outside the box...

Could you find an old, used, tommylift and mount it on your porch?

Cheers,

That's a good idea, but I live in a historic district... thinking they probably wouldn't approve. 

[CharlieT]

I second the porch parking. And oh, I seem to recall someone posting about filling a frame with expanding foam on another forum. Might want to try that, too.......I understand it might help with floatation in case the water gets a bit too high.

[Raul CB750K1]

Here in old Europe, most of us live in appartment buildings. From a few years ago, new buildings must provide a parking spot for at least one car per appartment -though the builders will get as many spots as possible, because people usually buy another one with the appartment.

Having personal cellars on the basement is optional. Some builders do, some builders don't. Having somewhere to store the things you don't use often is useful, but what do you do if you don't have such a place? Well, I know somebody who bought a broken van, parked in his spot and use it as storage room. Maybe you could do the same and park it in front of your house.


Obviously, it has to be broken. Otherwise, you run the risk somebody will steal it, getting a bike at no additional cost! 


Raul

[tmht]

Here in old Europe, most of us live in appartment buildings. From a few years ago, new buildings must provide a parking spot for at least one car per appartment -though the builders will get as many spots as possible, because people usually buy another one with the appartment.

Having personal cellars on the basement is optional. Some builders do, some builders don't. Having somewhere to store the things you don't use often is useful, but what do you do if you don't have such a place? Well, I know somebody who bought a broken van, parked in his spot and use it as storage room. Maybe you could do the same and park it in front of your house.


Obviously, it has to be broken. Otherwise, you run the risk somebody will steal it, getting a bike at no additional cost! 


Raul

Lord knows it won't get towed away. That Jaguar in the photo has been sitting in that same spot with 2 flat tires for 18 months...

[Raul CB750K1]

Lord knows it won't get towed away. That Jaguar in the photo has been sitting in that same spot with 2 flat tires for 18 months...

Really? Was it left there after it was stolen, or is the owner known?

[Gordon]

At least you have the cover on to keep it dry!

[Pinhead]

My parents live out in central Kansas and places around there overflowed 8" rain gauges in a couple of hours.

The Smoky Hill River RAN BACKWARDS couple of hours later.

[toycollector10]

Here in New Zealand we don't have historic housing zones, most people don't care. In the photograph above, if it was N.Z., there would be a glass and concrete "architecturally designed" monstrosity built next door to you. Beautiful.  

[TwoTired]

Lord knows it won't get towed away. That Jaguar in the photo has been sitting in that same spot with 2 flat tires for 18 months...

Perhaps the city has classified it as historic, too?


 

[Sam Green Racing]

Why not park in the middle of the road, there dosn't seem to be much traffic about and the flood hasn't reached there yet.

Joking apart, it's sad that the weather causes so much damage and disstress to the people of the Gulf.

I lived down the road in Pascagoula for a while and allthough I didn't get hit by a huricane, we did have some very adverse weather.

It rained one day for about 10 minutes and the water in places was about 2 feet deep, other than that, the 6 months I was there was glorious.

Why dont you swing a winch on that power pole and haul the bike up a few feet

Sam.

[tmht]

Lord knows it won't get towed away. That Jaguar in the photo has been sitting in that same spot with 2 flat tires for 18 months...

Really? Was it left there after it was stolen, or is the owner known?

The previous next door neighbor left it there when he moved away.

[tmht]

Here in New Zealand we don't have historic housing zones, most people don't care. In the photograph above, if it was N.Z., there would be a glass and concrete "architecturally designed" monstrosity built next door to you. Beautiful.   

That's the rub... the city government is so goofy here it's not even funny. I have a complex exactly like you describe getting ready to be built on the block behind my house. None of the designs submitted come anywhere close to meeting the guidelines for a historic neighborhood and the city gave them a waiver allowing them to only place half as many parking spaces as required by zoning on the property. But to quote the city planner, "the economic impact would be significant". Translated, "we're whoring ourselves out to developers for the tax revenue".